Merlin: Okay, Everyone. Simple Question. What Did We Learn Today?

Went without a jacket today, got caught in a rainstorm. :P

Ah darn, I just singed on and saw this. Good night Padmé, I’d have happily talked to you if you were still awake.

ani’s on a mission… somebody talk to me.

➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

Ditto. And R.I.P. everyone in that rooms hearing when I scream and cry over it worse than I did when Carrie Fisher passed.

I apologize in advance to anyone who is in the same room with me when I get the notification that Mark Hamill has died at age 98

For every person who likes or reblogs this post today, I will boop you.

You cannot stop me.

Only prolong your fate.

I can’t make gifs either someone do this because seriously it’s an amazing vision! Y’all we need this to be made!

Super obsessed with Taylor Swift’s “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart,” and really wishing that I knew how to make gifsets (or had time to learn), because if I did, I would absolutely be making a gifset of Luke Skywalker in the OT with the lyrics of this song.

In fact, I’m so obsessed with this idea that I’m going to storyboard it out and hope that an actual gifmaker gets inspired and makes this a reality, LOL:

Frame 1:

Text: ‘Cause I’m a real tough kid / I can handle my shit

Gif: Luke flying the Death Star trench run and/or making the shot that blows up the Death Star

Frame 2:

Text: They said, “babe, you gotta fake it ‘til you make it” / And I did

Gif: Luke hugging Leia and Han after blowing up the Death Star

Frame 3:

Text: Lights, camera, bitch, smile / Even when you want to die

Gif: Luke and Leia smiling at each other during the Yavin medal ceremony

Frame 4:

Text: He said he’d love me for all time

Gif: Anakin smiling at Padme after she tells him she’s pregnant

Frame 5:

Text: But that time was quite short

Gif: Vader cuts Luke’s hand off in ESB

Frame 6:

Text: Breaking down I hit the floor / All the pieces of me shattered

Gif: Luke writhing in agony as Palpatine electrocutes him

Frame 7:

Text: As the crowd was chanting, “MORE”

Gif: Shot of Palpatine himself as he electrocutes Luke with Force lightning

Frame 8:

Text: I was grinning like I’m winning / I was hitting my marks

Gif: Leia and Luke smiling at each other on Endor right after he’s seen the Force ghosts

Frame 9:

Text: ‘Cause I can do it with a broken heart

Gif: Luke’s face as he watches Vader’s armor burn on the funeral pyre

DO YOU SEE MY VISION?